All articles by Melissae Fellet
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ResearchMass spec goes massive weighing huge virus particles
Nanomechanical system can weigh protein complexes and viruses more than 100MDa in mass
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CareersClimbing the career ladder in southern Germany
There’s much on offer below Germany’s ‘white sausage equator’
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ResearchConfined reaction speeds up water formation
Trapping hydrogen and oxygen on a catalytic surface lowers the activation energy of the reaction between them
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ResearchExchange of rings shows off molecular machine's clever trick
Small ring passing through a larger one is a fundamentally new motion for a rotaxane
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ResearchFire-starting battery dendrites go with the flow
Bursts of current flatten dendrites on a lithium metal anode for high power batteries
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ResearchPromising high energy lithium battery ditches pure oxygen for air
Components work together to minimise side reactions in air, extending the battery’s cycle life
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ResearchMechanochemistry first as reaction driven by pressure
A redox reaction triggered by squeezing a crystal results in the ejection of copper nanoparticles
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ResearchEnzyme-free reaction cycles hint at primitive precursor to metabolism
Reactions between small carboxylates and a hydrogen peroxide catalyst resemble the modern citric acid cycle
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ResearchCatalyst sets sights on C–H sites
New catalyst stereoselectively functionalises unactivated C–H bonds
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ResearchCheap water splitting catalyst takes on precious peers
Hardy cobalt-based polyoxometalate can handle water splitting’s acidic conditions to compete with the best costly catalysts
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ResearchPatchy particles with predictable patterns
Controllable, predictable method produces patchy particles on a large scale
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ResearchDNA synthesis is just a click away
The technique could be an efficient and cost-effective method of gene synthesis
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ResearchAutomated exploration of chemical space finds two new reactions
Synthetic chemists hit on undiscovered reactions by processing data from a high throughput screen of tens of thousands of potential products
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ResearchElectronegativity of a single atom measured
Catalysts could be improved by mapping surface variations using new technique
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ResearchChiral molecules could recognise each other’s spin
Charge polarisation could provide an answer to how nature can distinguish mirror image molecules
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ResearchUnusual metathesis catalyst holds stereoselectivity promise
Molybdenum catalyst can make Z -trifluoromethyl-substituted olefins useful for pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and materials
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ResearchMiddle Eastern bitumen at Sutton Hoo rewrites trade history
The black lumps provide the first evidence for a bitumen trade network between the British Isles and the Middle East
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ResearchNucleic acid instability challenges RNA world hypothesis
Early life may have contained both RNA and DNA, rather than just RNA
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ResearchMolecular computer calculates Ebola diagnosis
A prototype device displays a fluorescent ‘E’ in the presence of DNA found in Ebola virus